Toronto's mayoralty candidates and their tactics

It looks like the supporters of the front runners are jumping all over the comment boards, wherever and whenever they can find them. The "comments" war has got so heated up that Globe & Mail had to warn their commentors that::

Comment junkies, beware. If you think you’ve been sparring with undercover campaign workers in the comment sections at the bottom of Globe political stories, you’re probably right.
....Now George Smitherman -- or “Slitherman” as his cloaked rivals call him on the web -- is getting into the act. We’ve obtained an internal e-mail sent Thursday at 11:53 a.m. from Colin Le Fevre, a member of Mr. Smitherman’s social media team, urging supporters to fill the comment boards with glowing mentions of their candidate and his policies. The e-mail even provides links to the right articles.....

I don't know about other Torontonians, but I am sort of leaning favorably towards Rob Ford. He seems to come across as less of a liar than the others. I am totally off Rocco Rossi since he used to be a Liberal fundraiser so his heart is in that camp and that's not good.  In my books, he is "out". As for George Smitherman, heaven forbid he gets elected. If that happens, we will be just replacing the blond wonder we have now, for a bald wonder and nothing else. Smitherman was another fundraiser and organizer for the Libs.

Rob Ford admits he's made some mistakes - and has sometimes spoken before he knew all the facts and that he understands why people are concerned about character in the mayor's race. But the outspoken mayoral candidate made it clear that no one should suggest controversial remarks he made about AIDS in 2006 indicate he's homophobic. ....

Mayoralty candidate Rocco Rossi says he'd use money raised by selling off Toronto Hydro to bury Transit City - literally - and start a program of building 20 kilometres of subways over the next decade. "Torontonians are telling me they want more than streetcars," said Rossi, perched atop the Kay Gardner Beltway Bridge over Yonge Street Tuesday morning. "Torontonians want subways, and as their mayor, I will deliver. So today I am announcing my plan for Transit City Plus." Rossi's transit plan would commit to investing $4.5 billion over the next decade to expanding mass transit in Toronto.....